Vladimir Sabgaida

Vladimir Sabgaida was a corporal and political commissar of the Soviet Red Army during World War II. Sabgaida led Red Army troops during the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-1943, and Sabgaida commanded the Red Army's recapture of the Stalingrad train station; the train station had switched hands twelve times. Sabgaida had soldiers crawl through a pipeline to reach the station, and they wrested control of the station away from the Axis.